Benjamin scakles



NITED STATES PATENT OEETCE,

BENJAMIN SCARLES, OF CLINTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE CLINTONWIRE CLOTH COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,450, dated August28, 1888,

Application filed August 24, 1887. Serial No. 247,702. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN SoARLEs, of Clinton, in the county ofWorcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvelnent in Wire Fence, of which the following is adescription sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any personskilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to makeand use the same, reference being had t-o the accompanying drawing,forming part of this specification, in which the figure is a sideelevation of a piece of my improved fence.

Myinvention relates more especially to the class of Wire fence which isprovided with body-wires5 and it consists in a novel construction andarrangement of parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed,the object being to produce a more desirable article of this characterthan is now in ordinary use.

The nature of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation.

In the drawing, A represents the bodywires, B C the fllling-wires, and Dthe selvagewires.

For convenience of reference the bod y-wires are numbered from l to 6,respectively.

The construction aud arrangement of the parts will be understood bytracing the course of the filling-wires. For example: Beginning at theleft-hand lower corner of the piece of fence shown in the drawing, thelling-wire B is twisted around the selvage-wire D', as shown, to formthe joint t, and at the pointu said iilling-wire is bent at right anglesto the selvage-wire and carried upward to the point w, where it isconnected with the body/wire l by twisting said iilling-wire andbody-wire together to form the joint z. At the point m said filling-wireB is bent at right angles to the body-wire l, and carried thencedownward to the selvage-wire D, with which it is again connected bybeing twisted around the same from r to d, making the joint d, where itis again bent at right angles, again carried upward to the bodywire l,with which it is twisted to form the joint f, and so on throughout thepiece.

The second filling -wire, C,

(which, for convenience in distinguishing it from the rst 1illing-wire,I have lettered differently,) and bodywire l are twisted together, asshown at Z, and at the point j said filling- Wire is bent at rightangles to said body-wire and carried upward to the bodywire 2, wheresaid body-wire and filling-wire are twisted together to form the jointh. At the point i the filling-wire C is bent at right angles to thebody-Wire 2, and carried downward to the body-wire l, where said bodyand filling Wire are twisted together to form the joint lo, saidlast-named joint filling the space between the joints z and f. At thepoint q the lling- Wire C is again bent at right angles to the body-wire1, and carried upward to the bodywire 2, with which it is twisted toform the joint x, and so on throughout the piece. Thus the llingwires Band C are alternately woven in throughout the breadth of the fence, andare exact duplicates of each other, except that for alternate meshesalong either edge of the fabric the filling-wire B is carried around theselvage-wirc D, whereas the filling-wire C is not.

It will be oserved that the body-wires and fillingwires are twistedaround each other in forming the joints, and hence that the union ismuch more perfect and the fence more rigid than when the body-wires areleft straight and the filling-wires merely coiled around them.

It will also be observed that the joints are continuous-that is to say,there is no space -betweenV the joints-which tends to give the fencegreater rigidityor firmness, as the lling-wires where they cross thespaces between the body-Wires are substantially in line with each other,thereby serving as braces or slats.

In the piece of fence shown cables composed of two strands are employedfor selvage-wires; but a rod or single wire may be employed, if desired.

Having thus `explained my invention, what I claim is 1. In a fence ofthe character described,

the combination of the body-wire A and lling-wiresB C,said body-wireheilig alternately twisted with said filling-wires to forni theconnectingjoints z 7c f, substantially as described.

tb, the Whole being combined and arranged substantially as described.

BENJAMIN SCARLES.

Witnesses:

GEORGE A. GIBBs, LOUIS G. BECK.

